What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

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Beethoven. Kreutzer Sonata & César Franck's Sonata in A for Violin and Piano.

Itzhak Perlman, violin and Martha Argerich, piano.

Live from Saratoga, 30/07/1998.

EMI.

I bought this when it was first issued and traded it in pretty quickly for reasons I don't remember. On reacquaintence I find it very exciting and a tremendous souvenir of on the wing music making.

Hmmm, I must have a look at this one!

[Stanfordian]

Magdalena Kožená – ‘Love and Longing’
Orchestral Songs by Ravel, Dvořák & Mahler
Ravel
Shéhérazade, three poems for voice and orchestra on verses by Tristan Klingsor
Dvořák
Biblické písně (Biblical Songs) for voice and orchestra, Op. 99
Mahler
Rückert-Lieder, five songs on poems by Friedrich Rückert
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Berliner Philharmoniker / Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded Live 2012, Philharmonie, Berlin
Deutsche Grammophon

Saint-Saëns
Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 18
Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 92
Trio Wanderer
Recorded 2004, Salle Modulable, IRCAM, Paris
Harmonia Mundi

[gurnemanz]

Belatedly, I've only just discovered Jacques Jansen via an Ozzie Eloquence disc I've just purchased. Seductive French baritone in a lovely recital (actually two recitals form two 1950s LPs) including Debussy, Chabrier, Ravel and Hahn. https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...decca-recitals.

I've played it several times since it arrived. No texts included. Find them yourself.

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Carl Nielsen
The Six Symphonies - The Three Concertos
CD 4
Violin Concerto, Op.33
Flute Concerto (1926)
Clarinet Concerto, Op.57
Dong-Suk Kang(violin)
Patrick Gallois(flute)
Olle Schill(Clarinet)
Gothenburg SO
Myung Wha-Chung.

Ernest Bloch
Piano Quintets Nos.1 & 2
Night(String Quartet)
Paysages (Landscapes) (string Quartet)
Two Pieces(string quartet)
Goldner Quartet
Piers Lane (piano)

[jayne lee wilson]

Holmboe Chamber Concertos
No.7 (oboe & orchestra); No.8 (sinfonia concertante); No.9 (violin, viola & orchestra).
Sols/Danish NCO/Hannu Koivula. Da Capo CDs.

Some of the most assured, splendid and daring works in the sequence.... the ever evolving fluidity of form, the startling rhythmic energies, those unexpected endings, the sudden upward sweep of melodic fragment...wonderful writing for brasses too.
All written quickly through the mid-1940s, perhaps this composer's most creatively fertile time....

Excellent sound here. A touch dry but with fine depth and very precise instrumental placings...

Hindemith Octet for clarinet horn bassoon and strings (2 vas., vn., cello, db....1957-8).
Ensemble Villa Musica (mdg gold CD).
Another of those marvellously quirky echt-Hindemithian chamber combos on those precious MDG discs (trio-quartet-quintet-septet etc... there's even a Sonata for 4 Horns......)... if only he'd written more like this.... time for the quartets perhaps...

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JLW, I’ve never heard much of Holmboe’s music!

CD 1
Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé
Claude Debussy
CD 2
La Mer
Trois Nocturnes
The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus
Lorin Maazel.

[cloughie]

JLW, I’ve never heard much of Holmboe’s music!

CD 1
Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé
Claude Debussy
CD 2
La Mer
Trois Nocturnes
The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus
Lorin Maazel.

Good ‘uns there Bbm!

[Suffolkcoastal]

Score following - Days 73, 74 & 75

Britten:
Quatre Chansons Francais
String Quartet in D Major
Our Hunting Fathers (vocal score) op8
Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge op10
Piano Concerto op13 (revised version)
Ballad of Heroes op14 (vocal score)
Violin Concerto op15 (violin & piano score)
Les Illuminations op18
Sinfonia da Requiem op20

[jayne lee wilson]

JLW, I’ve never heard much of Holmboe’s music!

CD 1
Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé
Claude Debussy
CD 2
La Mer
Trois Nocturnes
The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus
Lorin Maazel.

Try the 13 Symphonies and the 13 Chamber Concertos, just to, y'know, dip your toe in the water...

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Try the 13 Symphonies and the 13 Chamber Concertos, just to, y'know, dip your toe in the water...

Will do! Recommendations?

[Stanfordian]

Alfredo Kraus – ‘Airs d'Operas’
Opera arias from Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet
Alfredo Kraus (tenor)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra,
Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonic de Radio France,
Karl Böhm, Riccardo Muti, Nicola Rescigno, Bruno Campanella, Julius Rudel, James Levine, Michel Plasson, Georges Prêtre,
Recorded 1962-86, London, Paris, Toulouse,
EMI Studio DRM

Saint-Saëns – Complete Organ Works
Ben van Oosten (organ)
Recorded 2012, Cavaillé-Coll Organ, Église de la Madeleine, Paris
MDG (3 CD set) - A set ideal for dipping into.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Will do! Recommendations?

Symphonies 8-11 are the most striking, though they are all very good. The 8th is probably the best known.

[gradus]

Verdi 4 Sacred Pieces.

[pastoralguy]

Gabriel Fauré. The Two Piano Quintets.

No.1 Op.89 in d minor

No.2 Op.115 in c minor

The Schubert Ensemble. Chandos.

I don't know these works at all. Very elusive music.

[Edgy 2]

JLW, I’ve never heard much of Holmboe’s music!

Try the 13 Symphonies and the 13 Chamber Concertos, just to, y'know, dip your toe in the water...

Then treat yourself to the Kontra Quartet's box of all 20 string quartets,where the real heart and soul of this composer is to be found IMO